Matthew Arnold is responsible for two of the most celebrated remarks ever made about Oxford. One is the phrase “city of dreaming spires”—actually “that sweet City with her dreaming spires,” in his ...

Yet Oxford, the "City of Dreaming Spires" - a term coined by the poet Matthew Arnold) is so much more than just a university - even though, at about 900 years, that university is one of the oldest ...

Now we can add the U.K. city of Oxford to the list. City councilor and former Lord Mayor of Oxford, Mary Clarkson has described the ancient university town as a “tourist hell.” ...

Meanwhile, supermarket chain Morrisons revealed that Oxford is the UK city “with the most pulling power”. It questioned 2,000 shoppers, and found 27 per cent of them regularly spotted someone ...

This huge project is opening up new vistas in a city where visitors may think they've seen it all before. Here's a new way of looking at Oxford with hardly a dreaming spire in sight. The new ...

Oxford has in fact inspired innumerable ... ubiquitous: “And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,/ She needs not June for beauty’s heightening …” Our journalism needs your support.

Now we can add the U.K. city of Oxford to the list. City councilor and former Lord Mayor of Oxford, Mary Clarkson has described the ancient university town as a “tourist hell.” ...

Strolling forward, fascinated; wandering backward, bewildered at the sight, where the silent spires ... Oxford University Press bookstore stands on the High Street, as a witness to the city's ...